Mortals could increase their strength to the peak of the high order by training and taking risks. What was the specific level of this "peak of the high order"? Sui Xiong had quantified it. It was roughly like the total level of 19 in Krieg's system.
At this level, it was very difficult to increase one's level further.
If there were enough resources, one could consider taking a shortcut and becoming a weak master. For example, after the combat profession reached level 19, one could go to a big library to study hard for a few years and achieve two or three scholar levels. Or one could find a territory to be a lord and achieve a few lord levels. Then one could easily transcend into the divine and become a legendary master.
Of course, this kind of Legendary Master was not very powerful. Some of them could not even defeat high-level geniuses like the late Spencer. Back then, when Leon used the alias "Ray" and roamed the Western Wilderness, he had fought with this kind of fake Master. Although he could not win, he did not lose either. The late Joseph Riley, the former city lord of Garth City, was such a strong master. Usually, he could bully those masters with poor equipment by relying on his top equipment. He even used magic formations, helpers, and strategies to kill other legendary masters. But in the case of a fair duel, he was almost at the bottom of the legendary level.
If he didn't want to be a fake, he would first have to find a direction to transcend. If this direction was suitable for him, he would be able to reach level-20 and step into the "quasi-Legendary-realm". If he could go through this direction and make a key change in this direction, he would be able to reach level-21 and become a true Legendary-realm powerhouse.
In this regard, clerics such as priests, priests, and paladins have the greatest advantage. As direct subordinates of the gods, as long as they had enough strength, they could often get guidance from the gods through prayer and could find a path that suited them more easily. Therefore, among the legendary masters from ancient times to the present, at least 60 to 70 percent were clergymen. The other professions added up only made up half of the clergymen.
Apart from the clergymen, those who majored in both physical and magic had some advantages in this regard because they were more flexible and could take more paths. The pure physical professions were a little behind, and the pure magic professions were the most tragic.
This was very strange. Among the various high-level professions, high-level mages had the highest social status and the strongest comprehensive ability. However, it was also the most difficult to become a Legendary powerhouse.
The main reason for this was that the mages knew too much and there were too many paths they could take … However, there were too few paths that were suitable for them.
A mage, an orthodox mage, would know at least a hundred ways to enter the Legendary-realm. However, when he tried it himself, he would find that none of the 100 types were suitable for him, so he would fail from one failure to another. After a few failures, his life would almost come to an end.
That was why there were very few Legendary-mages. Usually, only those with longevity, powerful mentors, or extremely good luck would be able to find a path that truly suited them before their lifespan ran out.
However, there were always gains and losses. Once a mage found a suitable path for himself, stepping into the Legendary Realm was just a matter of pushing the boat along the current. Usually, only a large-scale ceremony was needed to adjust one's body and soul to the direction that was completely suitable for this path. Then, with the help of a huge amount of magic, one could directly step into the Legendary-realm.
In contrast, even if other professions found a path, they had to continue to work hard, slowly accumulate, adjust themselves, and accumulate strength. Many people fell in this process and died with their eyes wide open.
Satan was undoubtedly the lucky one among the mages. Although he was a little unlucky when he was young, when he was almost 30 years old, his luck finally changed, and he successfully clung to Sui Xiong. With Sui Xiong's support, his magic research advanced by leaps and bounds, and his strength also increased rapidly. It only took a little more than 20 years for him to reach the peak of the high-level. As the most reliable high-level caster of the Church of the Void Mask, the two gods of the church took good care of him. The God of Knowledge, Wall, even spared his divine power and specially spent time to deduce suitable paths for him. In the end, he deduced a few good choices.
Among these paths, the first one that Satan chose was "Purification."
He was a very ambitious man. Although the other paths might be relatively easy, the corresponding priesthood already had an extremely powerful god. Only the priesthood of "Purification" had not yet been taken by a powerful god.
If he took this path, there would be much less resistance when he wanted to become a god in the future.
Although he was just a mortal who had not even stepped into the legendary realm, Satan had a very far-sighted vision and a very big dream. As long as there was hope, he must work hard to become a god!
For this, he thought about it carefully and finally decided to purify the Ashes Forest as his path to become a god. As long as he followed this path bit by bit, when the whole Ashes Forest was purified, the power and faith he had accumulated would definitely be enough to become a god!
This might take many years, hundreds of years, thousands of years, or even thousands of years … but he believed that he would definitely be able to walk this path to the end, and finally become one of the immortals in the Pantheon temple!
This experiment was of great significance to him. It was related to whether he could verify his understanding of the concept of "Purification." If the verification failed, it meant that his accumulation in the past two years was completely wrong. He had to readjust his understanding, adjust the structure of the magic power in his body, and even adjust his thinking pattern.
In that case, it would take at least ten years, or even longer. It was unknown how many mages in the world grew old in such failures, and finally died of old age unwillingly. There were also many mages who, in order to live longer, had to risk their lives to try some difficult life-prolonging methods to gain enough time to improve. Most of them failed, either because they failed in the life-prolonging method, or because they succeeded in the life-prolonging method but found that the road to legendary was cut off. There were still only a few who could really step into the legendary realm.
Satan was already over 50 years old this year. Even with the help of the life-prolonging potion, his physical and mental peak state could only be maintained for about 30 years at most. After this time, the aging of the soul would be reflected in the spirit. Even if the body was still young, as a mage, the road ahead would inevitably become narrower.
30 years was probably enough for him to fail three times.
Thinking of this, he knew why he was so nervous and so concerned. Why he did not care about the cost, and even almost spent all his wealth, and even owed two adults a favor to do this huge experiment?
Fortunately, his luck was good. The first experiment was successful. Next, as long as he held a ritual to adjust himself, and with the help of a huge impact of magic power, he could basically guarantee to step into the legendary realm.
According to his current situation, and the wealth of the Church of Void Mask, it was estimated that he could be ready in about half a year. At most, in less than a year, he could become a legendary mage and set foot on the new peak of life!
And the success of the magic array was not only of great benefit to Satan, but also to Felix and Josh. Through the completion of this huge magic array, Felix's understanding and mastery of magic power went to a higher level, at least saving more than ten years of slowly accumulating time; Josh, on the other hand, improved his control of the dragon blood magic in his body, and also saved a lot of time to practice magic.
As for the people who benefited the most, it was actually the people of Pyroxene Town.
For a long time, the pioneers of the Ashes Woods had lived in an environment of weak negative energy. Even if the towns and villages were protected by the temples, people always had to go out. Once they went out, they would inevitably be eroded by the negative energy.
In this case, the life expectancy of the civilians in the Ashes Woods was relatively short. They often began to age and get sick at the age of about 40, and they would die painfully in a few years under the circumstances of disease. Of course, they did not want to live this kind of life, but they had no choice but to endure it in silence.
It was not that there was no magic tool to resist negative energy in the world, and it was not that there was no magic potion that could eliminate the erosion of negative energy. How could the civilians afford to buy it?
But now it was different!
The completion of the large-scale purification array made most of the residents of Pyroxene Town not have to come into contact with negative energy, and even the erosion of negative energy that had accumulated in their bodies would be slowly purified over time. This would make them have a longer life expectancy and a healthier body. The former could not be seen for the time being, but the latter was immediate.
Almost a moment after the purification array was completed, the people who were active outside the town felt that the surrounding environment had changed. It was not that there was more or less smell in the air, but the previous gloomy and depressed feeling was gone, and the whole person felt a lot more relaxed.
They looked at each other doubtfully, not knowing what was going on.
But there was no doubt that this was definitely a good thing!
That night, Felix summoned all the residents of Pyroxene Town and announced that the large-scale purification array had been completed. From now on, as long as they did not go out of the green space in the woods, they did not have to worry about being eroded by negative energy. The residents were at a loss at first — they did not know what negative energy was, but after further explanation by Felix, they were overjoyed and happy as if they were celebrating a festival.
After all, who did not want to be healthy and live a long life!
Seeing this scene, Felix's heart skipped a beat, and he took the opportunity to declare this day every year as the "Purification Festival", and a celebration would be held to celebrate this happy day.
As the saying goes, good things should be done early. Since this festival had been decided, it was better to celebrate it today!
So when Josh returned to Pyroxene Town, he saw a raging bonfire in the square in the center of the town, several tables full of white bread and ale, and two chefs preparing meat and vegetables. The residents laughed and sang, rejoicing.
They laughed so happily, as if they wanted to take advantage of this celebration to release all the depression and pressure that had accumulated for a long time.
They sang so cheerfully, as if they wanted to use their songs to drive away all the bad luck, usher in endless good luck, and hold it firmly in their hands and never let go.
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